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Growing Roots
Growing Roots for everyone
Growing Roots is the learning you need to do within your first six months as a new volunteer, with Safety & Safeguarding need to be completed within the first 30 days as a volunteer.
Safety and Safeguarding
This learning needs to be completed within the first 30 days of joining.
Creating inclusion
Data protection in Scouts
Who we are and what we do
You have six months to completed this Learning from the date you become a volunteer.
You can complete all the Growing Roots training by logging into My Learning.
Growing Roots for some people
This is the learning some people need to do.
Delivering a great programme
This learning needs to be completed by all Section Team members.
Leading Scout volunteers
This learning will need to be completed by all Team Leaders and Lead Volunteers, except for Team Leaders of Section Teams and Sub-teams
Being a Trustee in Scouts
This learning will need to be completed by all Trustees.
First Response
Separate to Growing Roots, First Response must be completed by many people within 12 months of starting a role.
This learning needs to be completed by every Section Team Member, Section Team Leader, Group Lead Volunteer or 14-24 Lead Volunteer.
It must be renewed every three years.
First Response training is provided by local Volunteering Development teams.
If you need to complete or renew your First Response training,
Contact firstaid@sunderlandscouts.org.uk
for dates of the next courses.
Some external First Aid certifications are accepted to cover some or all of the Scout First Response requirements.
Safety, Safeguarding and First Response learning need to renewed every three years.
Branching Out
Branching Out learning is for when you want to stretch yourself and develop your skills and knowledge.
Some of the Branching Out learning is required if you want to do certain things, like learning for our accreditations. Other learning is there for if, and when, it's helpful for you.
It covers a wide range of topics, from practical Scouts skills and how to deliver adventurous activities, to how to manage projects and events. Delivery methods vary with some content designed to be delivered face to face, in practical skills workshops for example, or as online content on the My Learning digital tool.
Re-joining Scouts after a break
If you’re joining or re-joining Scouts after a break of 180 days or more, you’ll need to re-do your Growing Roots learning, even if you’ve completed this learning in a previous role.
How to access learning and keep track of your progress
Sign in to scouts.org.uk and go to ‘My learning’ to access all our learning and to view your learning record. There you can see the learning you need to do, explore other learning you might be interested in, request to be assessed and keep track of your progress. If you lead a team, you can also see your team’s learning records and create learning reports to check how your team is getting on. Read the My learning digital guide; to learn how to do this.